Lee Bridgers

Lee (Dink) Bridgers/Musiek is an independent author and artist with a BFA degree in painting from the University of North Carolina, a BFA and a terminal MFA degree in fine art film, video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute. His multi-media artwork has been collected by museums and individuals, shown, heard and experienced at educational institutions and an assortment of independent venues scattered around the world. In the late 70s and 80s Dink built and repaired guitars for the stars, fronted a cabaret rock band and independently produced and published music on his own record label. In the late 80s and 90s he worked as a film studies lecturer and film and video production school director, creating and operating media arts education centers in Colorado and North Carolina, supporting the efforts of independent media artists with instruction, equipment and manpower. He has produced countless unique and personal fine art pieces in multiple motion picture formats, featuring interactive performance elements and audience participation. Dink pioneered the use of consumer equipment and digital video effects in fine art while producing video documents for university departments, non profits such as the Sierra Club and artists such as Allen Ginsberg (Harry's Home by Lee Bridgers/Musiek is archived in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute). He founded Dreamride LLC, a mountain bike film and fantasy service (see the cycling segment in IMAX Everest) and wrote an internationally popular Moab guidebook (Mountain Bike America: Moab) that placed him on the front page of the Salt Lake City Tribune. The book included many short stories about local residents and Lee received death threats and kudos from local business owners and rave reviews from sports and literary magazines. ABC's Good Morning America aired a ten minute segment featuring Lee and his business, Dreamride in 1998. Lee has been featured in Sunset magazine, several sports publications and Art Business in America magazine. Over the past twenty years his stories, photos and essays have been published in news print (The Canyon Country Zephyr), magazines (Mountain Bike Action and others), text books (To the Extreme, University of Illinois Press) and on line (HelloHorror.com, Sideshowworld.com, Dreamride.com/stories.html). There is an excerpt from a chapter entitled THE HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 13 from Lee Bridgers' upcoming second memoir about family life in the Haight Ashbury, entitled MINDSWEEPER, in the January 2015 issue of HelloHorror online magazine. Downloads of Dink Bridgers and Mindsweeper recordings are currently free at DKBRIDGER.COM. Lee Bridgers Musiek videos are available to be viewed on YouTube. His paintings and sculpture can be viewed by appointment at the Dreamride Gallery in Moab, Utah.